Irl cake day today for me. We are insanely busy at work so won’t celebrate much until the weekend. EOFY is weird this year - weirder than normal and people are doing strange things with their money. Profitable for us, but I wonder at the fallout later on.
EDIT: thank you all so much - it makes a difference. My boys are calling me tonight, and I’ve just run away from work leaving my staff in charge for the rest of the day. If they can’t cope, I didn’t train them right. We’ll be having work cake tomozz. This is a special birthday, as I am now OF PENSION AGE!!! And eligible for ALL the discounts! So I can now threaten to retire if da boss gives me grief.
Happy birthday! 🎉
Happy birthday 🎈🎈🎂
And yes it’s weird out there this year
Happy birthday!!! ❤️🎉🎂
eyyy happy birthday! demand your coworkers pay for lunch
Happy birthday wishes!
Happy birthday 🎉🥳
Maybe when people are finding money a bit tight they do try to get “deals” like buying EOFY discounts and trying to claim things on tax? Hopefully the contrast of busy now and relaxed later will make weekend celebrations even better?
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday wonderful Witch of the Web! I hope work is smooth and uneventful for you and you’ve got some lovely warm goodies lined up for the weekend.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
🌳Happy ⭐️Birthday!🌳🥂
Merry solar circumlocution!
Happy birthday, Witchy!
Happy Birthday! Hope the workday is not too awful!
Happy birthday! Hope you have a fabulous day (despite being at work) 🎂
Happy birthday Witchy ♥️
Happy birthday 🎂
Happy Birthday!
Happy b’day!
Happy birthday! 🎂
All the best😁
May the bastards not get you.
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The gangs all here 🐱
Your gang are neither little nor ill fed.
but they are beautiful 😻
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They got big!
Do they come close when you are laying the food down?
They run and squeek at me and hassle me while I’m trying to get the wet food happening lol
aw, they love you 😻
“Look everyone, the food giant has arrived!” lol
Aww look at those floofy little bellies
Any updates with getting them to the vet to be checked out? If that’s what you wanna do of course, shouldn’t be your responsibility!!
Unfortunately work took over my life for a little while. Once it settles down in a few weeks then that’s the plan.
Would love to find somewhere for them to go afterwards though.
I don’t know if it’s just me but I reckon they’re also being looked after by someone else.
They get fed sometimes by people in the block of units next to the park but they’re definitely strays.
It’s been about a year now and their behaviour isnt that of a “kept” cat
OMG 😻😻😻
Those eyes are always watching
Hambam steals my trackies, lies down and just looks at me for no reason.
He’s disgusted in whatever you were doing without pants on.
He says ‘Well? Help me get them on.’
Got snacks?
Nah I got up to go to the loo instead of the fridge.
If I had a snack, he’d be sitting nicely beside me.
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While those eyes are watching you,put on the World test championship cricket final!
Yeah it’s on.
I forgot about it last night and didn’t manage to see any of it.
I watched a bit last night
I don’t think Monash IVF should be advertising right now on the telly. PR team working overtime.
I’m guessing they’d already paid for it and no one is paying enough attention to authorise the pulling of the ads.
I’ve never seen the ad until 3 days ago. And it’s getting hammered.
What happened?
Implanted an embryo into the wrong person (again)
And the CEO(I think) of Monash IVF has stepped down.
What channel was it on?
Channel 7
I’ll keep an eye out over the next few days.
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Having security cameras is kinda fun - I’ve just looked at last night and discovered Miss Meow has also worked out the dog door. It appears she just stayed under cover and looked out for a bit before teleporting back inside, but that last bit could just be continuity gap from the motion sensors not picking up when she went inside.
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Happy cake day!
Thankyou! That doesn’t show on my app so I had no idea. Maybe I should just add my own cake to all my posts today?
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Good idea! Just noticed it’s @MeanElevator@aussie.zone’s as well. Mine is tomorrow. Means it’s been 2 years since the exodus, wow!
Really? I can’t tell cause on mobile today.
Wild it’s been 2 years.
Here’s one for you too. 🎂
Time flies when you’re in the zone 😁
yay, cake day 🎉
🎂!
Jammed/sprained my finger yesterday.
Iced it for a bit and definitely less pain today but still a bit swollen and lacking full mobility.
Thankfully it’s the ring finger on my left hand.
Gotta do those finger stretches to warm up before a two-in-pink sesh bruh
😂😲
Metaphoric much?
Not at all!! I wasn’t wearing my wedding ring thankfully.
I was eluding to the fact that apart from the ring it’s the most least used finger i have
Phew!
I had to call centrelink. I need a nap now.
🥃 Not to promote early drinking, but here’s a stiff whiskey. I think you need it after calling cennalink
I’ll promote early drinking. I love early drinking.
Thanks
That bad huh?
An hour on hold but all sorted now.
Yuck on the hold time there.
How is it I started work at 9, I’ve been here 18 hours, yet it’s not even 1:30? (Today is going soooo slooooow)
Slow maybe, but it is Thursday.
Thursdays do tend to drag for me. Probably because of the prospect of Friday tomorrow and the anticipation that comes with.
Definitely slow and also a long shift too.
I see we’ve had the same day
Back home. Sox is being saucy today. She better get over herself or that food will be for naught!
Speaking of food, I felt briefly tempted to have a pizza per today’s thread emoji but I think I’ll leave that for the end of next week when I really will need a pick-me-up after my presentation for which I have yet to make the requisite graphics let alone slides but I tend to do presentations best at the very last minute anyway.
What is Sox doing?
Also what sort of pizza?
Oh baby girl is not happy with the service of her hotel. She needs a comped meal quick! XD
Cuddles and warmth will fix it
Beeeeach . Lovely and sunny and no cold breezes.
I found a pair of swimming goggles and a nice piece of coral.
The colours of the beach are so beautiful.
the white is shells growing on the rocks
Omg those rock pics are stunning 🤩
Thank you. 😳 I walked out into the water to get that shot
the colours are so beautiful, the blues, the white and the black
Low tide is always pretty but especially today
Those shells could be mussel spat. Keep an eye on them to see if they grow to harvestable size …
Not allowed to touch live shells on the beach .
Today I fill all the buckets and fermenters in prep for having no water tomorrow. Done this drill before, it’s fine when you have warning, nasty otherwise
Good morning all! Happy Thursday.
Shoutout to anyone else who’s part of the Insomnia gang.
Suuuuuuup👊
There’s more of us -_-
I think I’ve done what I can to prep for the presentation tomorrow - gonna do a few more reviews and editing (scientific names for animals should be in italics), and run through it with my partner.
I have a suspicion I may have put more info then they need, but I’ve adhered to the marking rubric so 🤷🏼♀️
Anyone want to know some cool facts about Tachyglossus aculeatus (The Short-Beaked Echidna)? 😂
Is that the Niu Gini one that’s recently been re-discovered? I know they’ve got long beaked echidnas, but I think there’s been some developments on the short-beaked side quite recently.
He he, the actual word echidna is NOT an indigenous word - it comes from greek mythology and is the name of a goddess of chaos. quote below from theoi.com
"EKHIDNA (Echidna) was a monstrous she-dragon (drakaina) with the head and breast of a woman and the tail of a coiling serpent. She probably represented the corruptions of the earth–rot, slime, fetid waters, illness and disease.
Ekhidna was sometimes equated with Python “the Rotting One”, a dragon born of the fetid slime left behind by the great Deluge. Others name her the Tartarean lamprey, and place in her to the dark, swampy pit of Tartaros beneath the earth. Hesiod, makes her a daughter of monstrous sea-gods, and presumably associates her with rotting sea-scum and fetid salt-marshes.
Ekhidna was the consort of Typhoeus–a monstrous, multi-headed storm-giant who challenged Zeus to the throne of heaven. Together they spawned a host of terrible monsters to plague the earth including the Khimaira (Chimera), Kerberos (Cerberus), the Hydra, Sphinx and the Drakon Hesperios (Hesperian Dragon).
Four other closely related she-dragons were the Argive Ekhidna and Poine (Poena), the Tartarean Kampe (Campe), and the Phokian Sybaris."
The Short-Beaked Echidna is the only native Echidna to Australia - the other 3 extant echidnas are native to Niu Gini! Thank you for the etymology! I had no idea they painted Ekhidna as such a gross sea-beast 😂
I studied the skeletal structure of T. aculeatus! They have a pectoral girdle that is really similar to the therapsids (mammal-like reptiles from the Permian/Triassic)! Shows how old of a species monotremes are! Their humerus is lateral to the body, giving them that waddle, and their tibia and fibula are “backwards” compared to mammals causing their hind feet to point caudally!
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The maxilla and mandible of T. aculeatus is fused into a beak-like mouth. It isn’t actually a beak, however, as it is made of specialised jaw bones and muscle, rather keratin coated bone (like a bird beak). They use their long tongue and long mouth to snuffle in soil for ants and termites (they are insectivores), and then use their tongue to grind up their food against a bony hard plate on the maxilla, along with a slight back and forth motion of their jaws, as opposed to the up and down motion humans do when we chew.
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Their backwards facing hind feet (pointed towards the posterior of the animal/ pointed caudally) means that when they dig out their food or dig out burrows, the dirt is kicked back and away. Combined with the females backward- opening pouches (the opening of the pouch is also pointed towards the posterior) this means that dirt and soil and bugs won’t be kicked into their pouch and onto their puggle.
They also produce milk (one of the reasons they are in the Mammalia Class) via mammary glands, but they don’t have nipples in their pouches; the milk seeps through the skin a bit akin to sweat
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This sounds like a fun assignment!
It is!! I also studied the skeletal systems of the Eastern Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus) and the Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus), it is all extremely riveting! And it took me down a few different rabbit holes haha
That sounds like a fun rabbit hole. Or should I say snake / budgie hole
I like the word puggle
4 degrees, rip the bandaid off and just jump out of bed to get me going.
Oh I hate mornings like these. and heating is busted at work again.
Tomorrow’s going to be worse. But the upshot is that the sun is out!! It’s worth getting out of bed for. (Not so much when you’re indoors and the heating is busted… yikes)
I’m kind of hoping that winter ends sooner. These temps feel more like July than June. Not having a proper autum this year really messed up my sense of reference.
I do remember some frightfully cold June days before but certainly not a whole week of it and especially after such a warm autumn. I agree, I kind of feel like we’ve fast-forwarded a bit here… I don’t think I could do 3 months of this. Definitely going to try and escape over July/August if I can
I do recall some pretty warm June days, high teens low 20s, not that long ago.
We generally don’t really run the fireplace until mid-late June…been been running it for a few weeks now.
This year has definitely been bizzare.
You’re right though. If this keeps on till August, we might be looking at a week or so somewhere warmer
IIRC we had few mild winters through the covid era so it’s a bit annoying to go back to this. I do remember my first couple winters in Melbourne 10-11 years ago being this cold around mid June though (not in terms of perception but recorded temps) - but then April and May were substantially cooler than this year.
If money weren’t an option I’d be going off to some nice Pacific island to unwind but I will probably go hang out with my crazy family in Perth for a bit while I figure out what next in life. Not that warm but nowhere near as cold as here… might even do a road trip up to northern WA to see some fam up there.
Oh no, waking up is going to be hard tomorrow! Saturday too!
Pretty frosty week all up. At least it’s not entirely overcast because that would drive me insane. I might step out for a bit and soak up some rays with my puffer jacket on.
I will NOT be getting up early on Saturday, that’s for sure.
Do you have the option to work from home? Cause if any utilities were broken at work, I’d be raising a stink to high heaven.
Nope, no option to work from home in this instance.
Dang. Rug up, think warm thoughts and remind the boss about this should you ever leave.
I’m rugged up though it’s not motivating me to do much work at the moment.
I can’t imagine it would.
